As trading and investment firms face growing data requirements and shrinking budgets as a result of the turbulent economic environment, market data managers are focusing on better data administration,...

A highly engaging intensive one-week programme designed to meet the demands of the risk professional by bridging the gap between theory and practice in financial risk management. Save your seat now: programme starts March 23rd 2015.

Cross-border lawsuits are becoming a possibility as international investors contact US lawyers for help on losses arising from Lehman Brothers-backed principal-protected notes.
Chris Vernon, partner...

Former UBS banker Robin Budenberg has been appointed chief executive of UK Financial Investments, the body established to manage the UK government's investments in financial institutions including the...

Major Chinese entities and international banks are steeling themselves for a protracted battle on multiple fronts related to the use of over-the-counter derivatives. The confrontation is killing bus...

UBS
During a year marked by widespread uncertainty about the future of the financial system, constrained balance sheets and often large losses, the task of a risk management service provider has not...

International investors are contacting US lawyers for help on losses arising from Lehman Brothers-backed principal-protected notes, according to Florida-based law firm Vernon Healy.
The firm has seen...

An amendment to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's collateral dispute resolution protocol, delivered to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on September 30, answers many of the concerns...

Major banks have begun recruiting in derivatives to rebuild depleted fixed-income teams in recent months, buoyed by record revenues in the second quarter, recruiters say.
A number of banks reported strong...

UBS executives sold $21 million of personal auction rate securities (ARSs) holdings just days before the market ground to a halt, while continuing to market the securities to unwitting consumers, a New...

Own credit risk - the concept of including the credit risk of an institution in the measurement of the liabilities it issues - had a significant impact on banks' profits in the first half of 2009, a...

UBS has merged its fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) and equity quantitative analysis teams, bringing them under the umbrella of the newly created investment banking (IB) quantitative ...

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UBS Delta
UBS Delta, which celebrates a decade in business this September, today consists of a staff of around 35 fixed income and technology...

This white paper looks at the Basel Committee's BCBS239 principles, also known as PERDARR (Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting), which comes into force from 1 January 2016.

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US insurer MetLife is fighting its designation as a systemically important financial institution - a label handed out by the FSOC in December. State supervisors are also questioning the decision: www.risk.net/2391615. Should MetLife be supervised as a Sifi?